the way refugees become pools in a cruise to your political conflict, missouri, i'm afraid i'll never see him again. when. oh, you lost under the stats december 18th on dw the this is the the news line from ballot. serious owls to president breaks his silence. basha, i lost the addresses, his full front path for the 1st time in the written statement. he says he planned to keep on fighting, but russian evacuated since that christians have held the 1st month since the fall of the assad government. what does the new or is a mean for the countries minority plus recovery efforts underway in southern

africa after a deadly side clone risk status, patient across mozambique and the islands of my all sorts use that fear thousands of people may have done. the gulf is welcome to the program serious else? the presidents, busha. alas, son has broken his silence about his full from palm internet and statement posted on social media and also and said he never planned to abandon his country. as rebel forces closed in on damascus, he claim see initially move to a russian base in western syria to continue to fight to, but says russia evacuated him off to the base came under attack. the also denounces serious new leaders, us terrorists specialty off to us. a broken silence is the most commander who i'll sit to him said old rebel factions would be disbanded. speaking

to members of syria's drews religious group of adults are all said, revel fights, as would join the defense ministry and would be subject to load. i'll show all has sold to reassure minorities that serious new government will protect their rights and freedoms. but some of mixed emotions when they think about the new syria southern comes here for conflict. because local church near his home in central damascus, people wants it to continue being a safe space into new seo young and see me. but that was a new group that went around the country in the next raise. go about if they i'm not sure how it will be. some of the units cut off unless you need. it's still unclear, honestly, and i can't predict it. i can't say it will be negative and b,

but also it can be reassured, pointed to them, or someone like many of serious minority groups, cushions are eager to find a place on the serious new government writes from the those stuff the see signs of the change already on the way the flag a few we under a sites who is being erased. i'm the dental, i'll be out. we're painting it like made bring us white and prosperous days. elena, that says we are forced to paint the flag on our doors. all of us, but now we're free to painted and light football. so many of southern friends have long since left the country to escape the turbulent political situation over the past decades. and he worries that now things might get worse. on daughter, he's a old people or q him for bread, and but the bakery in there. but

despite the form of the regime, he says, very little has changed so far. let see why he's in the self. and the only thing that has changed here, how did you notice about, is that this building of the air force intelligence is empty? it authors over here? uh huh. hello. uh, it was always surrounded by arm soldiers. no, no, i don't see them. i thought you had wanted to see the other one is it's all the same when the body must have a lot of highlight. the air force intelligence spending is a prominent feature of a central noun for its brutal detention center. to the base is now the supply by serial position fighters. the show us what the regime agents left behind this as the interrogation room. and again these are the prison cells. and these were the close of its paintings. instead of

these chairs were used for torture. after seeing the prison sunday and starts believing that any future might be possible and celia newman saw and see what he said, he, i'm optimistic that there will be changing date on area sun. my the to be head class will be more relax. companies will no longer be complicating the price of kennedy buckley. how about what worries me the most is the chaos. in this transitional period i had to pay in the told the live it's going you might have to be, this is what i'm scared of. can hotley and i, you'll be so listening about good it's time for southern have left question about his relationship with the most i lot see the most of my relationship with the mask is my head of the table. just like when you fight with

your lover, you know, because it was that clearly sweet and the internet went up and then that's how my relationship with the mask is, is the most p a heck? hello. met a complex relationship in a complex city where he hopes to find the reassuring future to and the days following the downfall of serious dictatorship, people have gone to the countries, prisons to look for relatives who were locked away under the regime rise groups say that more than 15000 people have been tortured to this next report follows a man who can now revisit the place where he spend weeks. without seeing daylight. this unassuming building in damascus, notorious prison, where people disappeared a more torture. now relatives are searching for their loved ones. going through documents scattered inside and outside the building. so they do it even. this is

faddie, ive daugherty who spent weeks here. he says he was arrested because of a suspicious banking activity of damage and no. let's see him. i thought they arrested me and wanted to charge me with robbery. that's the sort of thing they asked. what do you do? i said, i'm a truck driver and i was with my father at the hospital and i receive money from my parents and my brother in turkey, so i don't know, but they thought that i was an agent because i have money transfers in my account on friday was moved from prison to prison conditions were grim abuse, rampant prisoners chain together. the fate charter to be to say something different, to charge me and take more money. when i stuck to my word and the truth, i'm sure they treated me badly so that i like it and he and his fellow prisoners, created a calendar to keep track of time. since they couldn't see the sun from eventually he was able to bribe guards to release him. and he says he was one of the lucky ones. was that we was with

a lot of the people without money spent 5 to 9 years in agra. prison. me either with a solid and they still have to pay a fine at the end. is body the nonsense line. now the guards are gone, but it will take a long time to piece together what happens to other prisoners. the unlucky ones were still missing. as to the southern african nation of mozambique now, whereas it is a cleaning up from damage from psych loan. shy though we exclaimed at least 3 lives . the drone video showed the extent of the damage with flattened homes and vegetation classrooms and a number of schools were destroyed as well. the store made land full on sunday, after pushing through the south west an indian ocean in the early part of the signed loan season. in the region, meanwhile, i search emergency operations on the way and the french islands are totally off my yachts, with its bowl. the brunt of tied up before it hit the african main line. so though it is the parts of possibly thousands of people have died with

a french red cross describing the devastation as quote, unimaginable french president obama mccall says he wants to visit my aunt in the coming days. psych room cheeto packed wins of more than 225 kilometers per hour when it slammed into the french territory of my art. francis poorest region. with nearly a 3rd of its population living in shandy, towns, the sheet metal roofs was torn apart. 0 to do sales is it was the wind, the wind blowing, and each of the deal. and i also panicked. i screamed, we need help a little bit and i was screaming because i could see the and coming from me isn't, is left up most of the rescue crews, 6 survivors and count the dead electricity and communication lines have been knocked out across large parts of the region and clean drinking water is in short supply you know,

there's nothing much people can do. people are keeping still. they haven't moved. are they waiting for help and help for food? for the electricity to be back up in water also, there's no running water. lose your health is on the way for france and other french overseas territories, but it's going to take time, the cyclone. this was a hurricane of unprecedented violence and probably the hurricane of the century. this level of violence hasn't been seen since 1934. prince's interior minister has arrived in my aunt's capital to coordinate rescue efforts because there was still mountains to move. so every one needs to come together. everyone needs to go to work. don't panic, don't rush, keep your cool. use what you've learned. you are professionals. while they wait for promised aid survivors pick through what's left of their lives

so daily, summer, summer, mazda hughes, the dining room in hughes. the kitchen rack is beautiful, where you can see the sinks, you fill out. so soon as that is the freight shot, the a gas stove. and on the other side again, it moved to a quick down cause that was my bedroom, as i'm in desperate need. thousands of miles residence wait for help to arrive. french authorities say, 800 more rescue personnel are expected in the coming days. turn out to have a look at some of the other headlines. school shooting of the us site of wisconsin has left at least 3 people dead, including the attack, the police and the town of madison inside the suits. it was a 15 year old female student at the school. donald trump's

been to have his huffman a conviction dismissed as being rejected by a judge in new york city. trump is off for the dismissal, following a recent voting by the us supreme court on presidential immunity. the convictions stems from hush money payments from made. so the adult film style, stormy daniels to prosecute us in bolivia and have issued interest. lawrenceville, former president steven morales, who they say, father the child with a minor 18 x go in 2016. the warrant must still be approved by a judge or all this route, but libya for 13 years until 2019 and has refused to testify, indicate and germany snuff elections on. now, just around the corner, i'm off to the german sound stuff failed to win a confidence vote in parliament. what f shows has been expecting to lose and used to speech ahead of the ballots. a set of his priorities, the country will likely head to the polls in february. as the members of jim and

his parliament gathered on monday, no lack of confidence was visible on the face of the shelves. the chancellor put the confidence question to the boldest tongue lead the 6th time this has happened, but he's a goes to the school vote, paving the way for an early election, which he's already campaigning to wait. isn't on dunst as he didn't talk, and we're a country that goes together every day, a country that value is because he's, you know, but the vision, a country that does not have its best days behind it. but i made it because i will continue to give my old rock country for germany every day. and i ask you, do citizens to put your confidence in the home and thoughts on its surface? the vault position lead to friedrich meds likes to become the next counsellor. when it's on the attack, he said, show, had holmes gemini, is kind of how you behave with the european level. is embarrassing. you are

a disgrace to jem and where, where are you? in the last 22 years, s p d general secretary, s b. the labor administer s be the finance minister as be the counselor, were you on another planet where you in another world when it came to the vent shows design policy, the plan confidence in him as expected. but the other policies i've abstained. hope voted against the chancellor, who was soon on his way to the presidential pro is for a meeting with the countries head of state. now has to decide if and waiting to hold a new election. president, bank balance or stein my has already signal do things. the 23rd of february, next year is a realistic date. then germans will decide if they want more of chancellor schultz or check direct. you're watching dw news. here's a quick reminder of our top story. serious,

the post president bush or our last side has broken his silence up to seem to rush a written statement. he says he plans to keep on fighting off the russians. he's actually and that's it. from me. the news team i've next to look at how it's chinese company made hundreds of millions of dollars with fortune and klondike project. so i've got office. thanks for watching the diesel, the news on the news the . it could be the biggest climate fraud and german history. they have the freedom

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